The phrase "accepted history" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a version of history that is widely recognized and agreed upon by historians or scholars.
Example: "The accepted history of the event has been challenged by new evidence that has come to light."
Alternatives: "established history" or "recognized history".
The rest is not quite accepted history.
WITH the fourth anniversary of the Obama administration's auto bailout approaching, the Detroit comeback narrative has settled into accepted history.
Walker uses these intricately designed silhouettes to suggest an alternative, or missing, perspective to an otherwise accepted history.
What the director could not guess was that her personal film, which premieres at the Berlin film festival in February, would also challenge accepted history.
Amid the rampant trash-talking between supporters of different black college bands, Prairie View's pioneering of this modern drumline feature seems to have become accepted history.
Often it can make the storywriter into a megalomaniac of sorts: he has to try to distil the collective into the individual by attempting to override the accepted history.
If Donoghue is a revisionist, tipping over the apple cart of accepted histories, then she is doing it by stealth and having a lot of fun with it, perhaps more seduced by the debauch than the redemption.
I just read and read and read - booklets about winter warfare, poems from Russian writers, accepted histories, and then, when I went to Russia to research, I interviewed old men in military hospitals - and compacted it all into an imagined story that I hoped was honest and representative.
"Nicole is an artist who has been playing with the history of art, while completely transforming it: she manages to both celebrate and destroy accepted histories and traditions," New Museum Artistic Director Massimiliano Gioni, who co-curated the show with Assistant Curator Helga Christoffersen, tells The Creators Project.
You have to accept history the way it is.
McBride disagreed, saying that much of his life and work had been dedicated to accepting history and practicing forgiveness, a kind of optimism he hoped to install in the film.
